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February 2025

Among Friends

Prepared for This

Introduction to our February issue. Martin Kelley
[Kat Griffith stands on her front lawn, getting ready to go out for door-to-door canvassing. She's standing in front of a homemade sign that says "WITH MALICE TOWARD NONE."] Features

Rhapsody in Purple

Reshaping hearts through political canvassing. Kat Griffith
Features

The Delight of Being Alive

A walking prayer meditation for healing. Gail Melix (Greenwater)
Features

Lessons from My Quaker Ancestors and the People They Enslaved

A Friend studies the history of slavery and abolition in his family. Os Cresson
Features

Learning Our True History

Alaskan Friends seek right relationships with Indigenous peoples. Jan Bronson
QUNO staff promoting Climate Change Features

Emblems of Change

Friends’ global responses to the climate crisis. Sharlee DiMenichi
Edward Hicks's painting, "Noah's Ark," features a line of animals, two by two, walking from right to left across the foreground, then doubling back and walking up a ramp into the ark, which looks like a giant warehouse plopped on top of a giant wooden boat. Poetry

The Time of Flooding

Noah had a vision. Vesta, his wife, listened. / She was strong and tall. Vesta cut Elaine Reardon

Legacy (Removed)

If legacy means long arms— / my grandfather’s smile Bill Shay
Colorful Textured Quilt Poetry

Turning a Row

how love inscribes its wanderings / in patterns in a Blocks and Strips sheening, Russell Endo
Forum

Forum, February 2025

Letters from our readers. Staff
Man standing on Cliff Viewpoint

On the Use of Despair

Despair, like any emotion, must be felt, acknowledged, given room to crescendo, and only then pointed toward action. Amanda Franklin
Bible Study

In Your Light We See Light

New for 2025, the Bible Study department runs four times a year in the February, May, August, and November issues. Ron Hogan
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